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Timeline

Formative Years	Early Works	Professional Career	Posthumuous

1924-1939	1939-1948	1948-1984	1984-

1948
		January 19 - Other Voices, Other Rooms published [more...]
		1948 - Writes "House of Flowers" set in Port-au-Prince after visiting Haiti [more...]
		October - Meets Jack Dunphy
1950
		April 7 - Moves to Taormina, Sicily with Dunphy
		1950 - Begins work on The Grass Harp [more...]
1951
		September - The Grass Harp is published, and he begins adapting it into a play version [more...]
1952
		March 27 - The Grass Harp opens on Broadway for a one month run [more...]
		September - Moves to Rome and helps David O Selznick with the script of Stazione Termini
1953
		1953 - Writes Beat the Devil [more...]
		June - Adapts "house of Flowers" to a Broadway musical [more...]
1954
		January 4 - Capote's mother dies from an overdose of sleeping pills
		December 30 - House of Flowers opens on Broadway [more...]
1955
		May 22 - House of Flowers closes after 165 performances [more...]
1956
		1956 - Moves to New York with Dunphy
		October 20 and 27 - The Muses are Heard published in The New Yorker [more...]
		December - The Muses are Heard published as a book by Random House [more...]
		December 27 - Travels to Asia to write about the making of the Marlon Brando movie Sayonara
1957
		November 9 - "The Duke in His Domain" about Brando appears in The New Yorker [more...]
1958
		1958 - Breakfast at Tiffany's is published in Esquire [more...]
1959
		1959 - Travels to Kansas with Harper Lee to research Clutter murders
1960
		1960 - Begins work on In Cold Blood
1961
		1961 - Adapts The Turn of the Screw by Henry James into a movie titled The Innocents [more...]
1963
		March - Newton Arvin dies of cancer
1965
		April 14 - Attends execution of the Clutter murderers
		September 25 - In Cold Blood runs in The New Yorker in four installments [more...]
1966
		January - Random House publishes In Cold Blood in book form [more...]
		November 28 - Hosts famous Black and White Ball in NYC Plaza Hotel
1967
		December - A movie of In Cold Blood is released [more...]
1975
		October - Esquire runs the first chapter of Answered Prayers called "La Cote Basque, 1965" [more...]
1976
		June - Appears in the comedy Murder by Death
1980
		1980 - Music for Chameleons becomes the last book Capote published [more...]
1981
		June 7 - Arch Persons, Capote's father, dies